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By James Howard
Kunstler
April 22, 2020
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- These are strange days, indeed. But in what
alternative universe can anyone imagine Joe Biden
actually making it through a presidential election
campaign? The party he supposedly leads stuffed him into
a broom closet last week after he gibbered through a
session with CNN’s leading light Anderson Cooper. They
can’t just hide the poor fellow there until November 3.
Asked about reopening everyday life in America, Mr.
Biden said, “You know, there’s a… uh, during World War
II, uh… you know, where Roosevelt came up with… a thing,
uh, that, uh… you know, was totally different than a…
than the… the, it’s called… he called it the… you know,
the World War II… he had the war… the War Production
Board….”
Everybody knows he’s dimmer than a night-lite, and
everybody’s pretending it’s okay. There’s no analog in
history for any faction putting up such an empty vessel
for high office. Granted, the Democratic Party has
trafficked in unreality for years, from Crossfire
Hurricane through UkraineGate — with side-trips like
trannies in women’s sports — but those capers were just
old-fashioned scams. Joe Biden for President is
Emperor’s-New-Clothes caliber deceit, requiring a
rank-and-file so marinated in falsehood they couldn’t
tell you the difference between a red light and a green
light.
So, you have to ask: what is their game? In the weeks
that led up to the blossoming of Covid 19, the game was
apparently to bump off Bernie Sanders to satisfy the
party’s corporate sponsors, who were not so eager to
back someone that promised to confiscate their wealth.
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Ironically,
Covid 19 only fortified Bernie’s case that the nation’s
obscenely crooked health care system demands drastic
reform. Now, you could easily construct a scenario in
which ol’ Bernie would have glided to victory in
November on the basis of that, combined with
unemployment figures that make the Great Depression look
like a job fair.
Picking Joe Biden as the instrument to block Bernie
seemed especially dumb just weeks after the Democrats’
impeachment gambit blew up in their faces by shining a
fiercely revealing light on Joe and Hunter’s adventures
in international grift. One can easily discern Mr.
Biden’s motive for remaining in the race after that
because sheltering in candidacy seemed to inoculate him
from any criminal investigation. But, did the whole
party want to go all-in on that?
Maybe so, because the doings in Ukraine circa 2014
included a large cast of characters in Barack Obama’s
state department – not least, Secretary of State John
Kerry – plus the entire George Soros network of
international backstage finaglers, with tendrils to
Jeffrey Epstein’s nefarious operations – in short, a
can of worms so slithery and disgusting they make the
Democratic Party look like a primordial sink of species
dumped into Mother Nature’s discontinued merchandise
bin. Note: none of that has been adjudicated yet and
don’t assume they’ll get off scot-free.
Then there is the sexual molestation charge against Mr.
Biden by ex-staffer Tara Reade, who claims the
then-Senator violated her manually in 1993. The New York
Times editors sang la-la-la-la-la-la-kittens-and-puppies
for two weeks before they even acknowledged the
accusation, only to dismiss it because, well, it was
like… you know, where Roosevelt came up with… a thing,
uh, that, uh… you know, was totally different than a….
There really are only two plausible game plans for the
Dems with Joe Biden. One is that he’s a mere placeholder
until the convention – assuming it can even be held —
where party bigwigs are forced to undo their Biden
blunder by some legerdemain of rules-fudging, and cram
in a last-minute replacement. The putative savior would
be none other than She-Whose-Turn-Was-Thwarted in 2016,
on the grounds that she at least knows how to run for
president, even if she isn’t very good at it. They might
as well hand every delegate a dixie-cup of
cyanide-enhanced kool-aid as they cast that fateful
vote.
The other pretty obvious scheme, seemingly underway now,
is to fix up Mr. Biden with a running-mate who can take
over his duties twenty-three minutes after the
inauguration ceremony. Stacey Abrams, the
self-proclaimed “real governor of Georgia” who, in fact,
lost that election but has made out nicely hustling her
delusions, is campaigning arduously for the VP
appointment. Wouldn’t that make a heck of an appealing
ticket?
Apparently, that’s one more memo the Democratic Party
did not get: America no longer has time for identity
politics. There are more important things to attend to,
like whether large numbers of people go to bed hungry,
get cast out of their homes, live or die. Things like
that. For the moment, the USA doesn’t have an economy.
Nor does much of the rest of the world. Believe me,
that’s a problem. And unlike Mr. Biden’s dementia,
there’s no pretense about not noticing it.
Mr. Kunstler was
born in New York City in 1948. He worked as a reporter
and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and
finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In
1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time
basis. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University
of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared
before many professional organizations such as the AIA ,
the APA., and the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. He lives in Washington County, upstate New
York. "Source"
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